The Mind as a Control System
Royal Institute of Philosophy SupplementPublished 1 March 1993
Aaron Sloman
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This is not a scholarly research paper, but a ‘position paper’ outlining an approach to the study of mind which has been gradually evolving since about 1969 when it first become acquainted with work in Artificial Intelligence through Max Clowes.
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This is not a scholarly research paper, but a ‘position paper’ outlining an approach to the study of mind which has been gradually evolving (at least in my mind) since about 1969 when I first become acquainted with work in Artificial Intelligence through Max Clowes. I shall try to show why it is more fruitful to construe the mind as a control system than as a computational system (although computation can play a role in control mechanisms).
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